(If you’d like to make a sheet similar for yourself, just copy it over to your new sheet.)

Looking at my sheet, you'll notice that not only do I want to build Post Planner into a $100M company -- I also have a lot of outdoorsy stuff on my list (cause I’m an outdoorsy kind of guy).

Going forward, I'll be measuring what I do along the way -- and I’ll be holding myself accountable. To myself. But also to my family and friends (whom I've invited to the spreadsheet) -- but also now to you, since you can see it too now.

Basically, I’m sharing my goals with the world so the world can keep me accountable.

I can't recommend this highly enough: you should tell others about your goals!! In detail.

Tell your friends, your family, your coworkers, your kids -- basically anyone you can find. This will keep you focused on and accountable for what you said you were going to do.

How we set goals at Post Planner

It turns out that we use a similar goal-setting philosophy and system at Post Planner.

The system is called "OKRs" and we use it to set, measure and track our goals.

OKRs stands for "objectives" and "key results" and it originated at Intel.

Now Google, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify, Yahoo and many other well known companies (including Post Planner!) use OKRs for goal setting.

The idea is that you set goals -- and then you set key metrics to prove whether or not you achieved those goals.

For example, let’s say you have a goal to learn how to play the guitar.

First you identify your objective: To play to guitar.

Next you identify the key metrics so you’ll know if you achieved your goal.

Maybe you want to play 5 chords perfectly. That is your KR or key result. It’s the measurable way to know if you reached your objective.

Now you need to set your target number. To do that, you have to add some context around where you are now.

Let’s say you can currently play 2 chords. That’s 40% of your goal.

So when you look at that objective of 5 chords, you have number that tells you about where you currently stand and how close you are to your goal.